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L. STOOKMAN.

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No. 407,908. Patented July 80, 1889..

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

LAIVRENCE STOOKMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,908, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed September 1, 1888. Serial No. 284,376. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE STooKMAN, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tables; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact-description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in tables; and it consists of the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

My invention contemplates an improved table of simple and cheap construction, having two of the four legs thereof fixed or stationary with the frame of the table and the other two legs adjustable at an angle to the said frame, on opposite sides thereof, to form supports for two drop-leaves, whereby the area of the table-top can be varied without the use of additional legs or other supporting devices. I am thus enabled to provide a fourlegged table which is capable of fulfilling all the functions of the ordinary extension-table with six legs and to dispense with a knucklejoint, and the two adjustable legs are adapted to lie within notches in the frame of the table, and thus be compactly folded out of the way and assist in supporting the table when it is desired to fold the drop-leaves.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a table-frame with the tabletop removed and one of the adjustable legs swung out at an angle to the frame. Fig. 2 is a side view showing one of the adjustable legs partly folded within the slot and notch in one side of the frame; and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line a: a; of Fig. 1, with the table-top in place, one of the leaves being folded and the other raised.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the frame of the table, which comprises the parallel side bars 0; a and end bars a a, which are firmly united together. At diagonally-opposite corners of the frame are secured stationary legs 13 B, and at the other corners of said frame are made notches or recesses c c, of sufficient size to adapt the upper extremities of the ad justable legs 0 C to fit snugly therein and lie substantially flush with the outer exposed faces of the bars a a of said frame, as shown in Fig. 1. It will be noticed that one of these recesses or notches is made in one end of each side bar a of the frame, and each side bar is further provided with a longitudinal slot 0 which extends from a point at or near the middle of the bar and opens at one end into the notch or recess, as indicated in Fig. 2.

To each of the adjustable legs 0 O of the table is secured or fixed a tie-bar D and D, respectively, and the free or unconfined end of each tie-bar is pivoted on a vertical pin or shaft (Z in the inner end of one of the slots 0 These tie-bars are of sufficient width to fit snugly in the longitudinal slots 0 in the frame A, and when the adjustable legs 0 C are moved into the recesses or notches in diagonally-opposite corners of the frame A said tie-bars D D fit in the slots flush with the exposed faces of the bars a a, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3.

E is the top, which is securely fixed to the frame A of the table in any preferable manner, and E E are the hinged drop-leaves, one leaf being arranged on one side of the top and the other on the opposite side thereof. (See Fig. 3.)

The operation of my invention is obvious from the foregoing description, taken in con-.

nection with the drawings.

WVhen it is desired to unfold the table, one of the leaves E or E is raised to-a horizontal position, and the correspondingleg C or C is drawn outwardly away from the frame A and adjusted beneath said raised leaf in the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 3 to prevent the free end of the leaf from dropping and to support the table. It is obvious that to fold the leaf it is only necessary to push the leg and its tie-bar into the notch and slot, respectively, of the frame, in which said leg and bar fit flush, so as to be compactly stored out of the way, when the leaf can be dropped.

Either leaf and its supporting-leg can be adjusted or folded independently of the other leaf and leg; or, if it is desired to use the entire table-top, both leaves can be raised.

The adjustable legs assist in supporting the table, whether they are folded within the frame A or Withdrawn therefrom to support the leaves. By the use of these adjustable legs at diagonally -opposite corners of the frame A, I am enabled to provide a table having but four legs which fulfills the functions of a six-legged table and Without the use of a knuckle-joint, thereby'materially eheapening the manufacture of the table and preserving the external contour of the ordinary table.

Havingthus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a table, the combination of a frame having the fixed legs 13 B at diagonally-opposite corners and the recesses c 0, formed therein at the remaining corners thereof, each side bar of said frame having a longitudinal slot extending from a point near the middle of saidbar to one of said recesses, the tie-bars each pivoted at one end in one of said'slots,

at the inner end thereof, and adapted to be folded within the same to lie flush with the 

